Quotes About Raising Your Hand

#1. In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

Tulsi Gabbard

#2. Come on guys, you cant fight like this forever"
"Actually," Simon said, raising his hand,"I can".
Jace made a weird noise and I realized he was trying not to laugh-which by the way, wasn't working.

Cassandra Clare

#3. My favourite place is at home with my family. My career is really raising my children. I'm still waiting for clarity on the future.

Withered Hand

#4. Brenna's eyes widened. Raising a hand, she brushed his hair gently off his forehead.
"Why do I keep telling you things I swore I'd take to my grave?"
The contact shot electricity through his nerves. "Because you know I'll always be your shield against the nightmares.

Nalini Singh

#5. One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.

Rick Smolan

#6. There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created.

Guillermo Del Toro

#7. When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."

Nick Offerman

#8. Against his raising? I'll tell you!" She put her hand to her mouth. When she drew it away, it trailed a long silver thread of saliva. "Your father's no better than the niggers and trash he works for!

Harper Lee

#9. Stop! Do not bare your soul on social networking brothers and sisters. If you reveal your cards in every hand, your enemy will always know your next move before you do.

Terry A. O'Neal

#10. We didn't have money for toys, so I made my own.

Willard Wigan

#11. You're a good shot, it doesn't matter how much stopping power a gun has." "If you're a good shot," I said solemnly, raising a hand to my breast, "you're probably already using a rifle.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.

William Wordsworth

#13. One should try to be honest with oneself almost as a daily devotion.

Ian Brady

#14. Eventually the United States became the latter arsenal and bank of the allies, and acquired a direct interest in allied victory that was to bemuse the post war apostles of economic determinism for a long time.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#15. When we were on acid, we would go into the woods, because there was less chance that you would run into an authority figure. But we ran into a bear. My friend Duane was there, raising his right hand, swearing to help prevent forest fires. He told me, "Mitchell, Smokey is way more intense in person!"

Mitch Hedberg

#16. Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.

Julia Sawalha

#18. My headache was worse than ever. I groaned, raising my right hand to my temple, and the last of the comfortable darkness dissolved, leaving me inarguably awake. Damn. "Toby?

Seanan McGuire

#19. Stopped her by raising his hand. I don't want to argue with you, Sara. I know you feel differently. Suffice to say that this is how I see it.

Harlan Coben

#20. People do tend to forget traumatic things. It's your mind's way of protecting itself.

Jodi Meadows

#21. I already have a plan." Celie said, raising her hand as she would with her tutor.
"Do you?" Rolf's eyes gleamed. "What is it?"
"I don't think you'll like it, Lilah." Celie apologized straightaway. "It involves manure ... a great deal of manure."
Rolf started to laugh again.

Jessica Day George

#22. One of my rules is: If it's good for the planet, it's usually good for your wallet.

Jean Chatzky

#23. You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.

Billy Crystal

#24. Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.

Quinn Cummings

#25. Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures ... My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn't be the same.

Masiela Lusha

#26. Whatever we came for isn't here, only remember or wish, if we think in those terms - and nothing to keep us (no token, no resemblance of things), nothing to carry home.

Adele Kenny

#27. You saved me," he repeated. The words sounded like they'd been pulled from the depths of his soul. He stepped back and then dropped his jeans, laying his body, mind, and soul bare with me. "Baby - " "My own parents walked away from me, but you saved me," he hissed, raising a shaking hand to my face.

C.P. Smith

#28. West," said Coach Jericho.
"That's me," said Will, raising his hand slightly.
"That's him," said Nick, pointing.
"That's helpful," said Jericho.

Mark Frost

#29. He demonstrated this power in the Messiah by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavens. Ephesians 1:20

Beth Moore

#30. I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.

Chuck D

#31. What is more powerful than the love of a mother? Perhaps only God's hand in answering her earnest pleadings on your behalf.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. Raising her hand and shaking the handcuffs, the shaking Pucks arm as well.
"Unfortunately, it is necessary," Puck explained. "You don't want to work with by security staff so from now on I'm going to be your personal bodyguard. Going to be with you every second of the day.

Michael Buckley

#33. I used to love hand raising.

Chris Matthews

#34. Point of clarification," Alex said, raising his hand. "We have an apocalypse comin'? Was that a thing we knew about?" "Venus," Avasarala said. "Oh. That apocalypse," Alex said, lowering his hand. "Right.

James S.A. Corey

#35. What a trio we are: wolf, dragon and ... " Ronan bit back the word. Shifter. He sat straighter in the saddle, raising one hand in farewell as his mount broke through the last of the boundary mists. "May the gods favor us this time, my friend. Pray Mairi Sinclair is the one.

Maeve Greyson

#36. I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.

John Green

#37. You will always be my world.

Elizabeth Finn

#38. I knew that my dad was a good man, a kind man, and though he'd led a wounded life, he'd done the best he could in raising me. Never once had he raised his hand in anger,

Nicholas Sparks